Sol LeWitt
Sol LeWitt
Solomon "Sol" LeWittwas an American artist linked to various movements, including Conceptual art and Minimalism...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionConceptual Artist
Date of Birth9 September 1928
CountryUnited States of America
artist commodity factories
The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns out refrigerators.
art thinking saving
I didn't want to save art - I respected the older artists too much to think art needed saving. But I knew it was finished, even though, at that time, I didn't know what I would do.
art ideas irony
I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art
art ideas form
Also, since art is a vehicle for the transmission of ideas through form, the reproduction of the form only reinforces the concept. It is the idea that is being reproduced. Anyone who understands the work of art owns it. We all own the Mona Lisa.
believe artist order
I believe that the artist's involvement in the capitalist structure is disadvantageous to the artist and forces him to produce objects in order to live.
artist giving information
The artist’s aim is not to instruct the viewer, but to give information, whether the viewer understands the information is incidental to the artist.
art acceptance would-be
When words such as painting and sculpture are used, they connote a whole tradition and imply a consequent acceptance of this tradition, thus placing limitations on the artist who would be reluctant to make art that goes beyond the limitations.
art literature narrative
The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature.
art ideas important
What the work of art looks like isn't too important. It has to look like something if it has a physical form. No matter what form it may finally have it must begin with an idea. It is the process of conception and realization with which the artist is concerned.
thinking doing-you ends
Unless you're involved with thinking about what you're doing, you end up doing the same thing over and over, and that becomes tedious and, in the end, defeating.
artist bricks foundation
An architect doesn't go off with a shovel and dig his foundation and lay every brick. He's still an artist.
art mind may
A work of art may be understood as a conductor from the artist's mind to the viewer's. But it may never reach the viewer, or it may never leave the artist's mind.
art past conventions
One usually understands the art of the past by applying the conventions of the present thus misunderstanding the art of the past.
art real years
Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus.